A fashion-savvy home decorating magazine for the new generation of design professionals and consumers who know exactly what they want, ELLE DECOR covers fashionable and inspirational products that bring couture chic to every room of your home.
Don’t miss six homes that capture the essence of easy summer style: • The verdant Hamptons garden of acclaimed chef and author Ina Garten. • Performance artist Martin von Haselberg’s quirky pool house, inspired by country chapels, in the Hudson Valley. • A refined take on the Connecticut country home by designer Carol Egan. • The rustic-chic Southampton, New York, cottage of retailer Mona Nerenberg and garden designer Lisa Bynon. • A beach house in Sag Harbor, New York, with a contemporary update by architect David Mann. • Style mavens Bruce Glickman and Wilson Henley of Duane Modern bring high style to a rural Connecticut home. Plus, architect Annabelle Selldorf on building with elegance, a fruity summer cake by chef Daniel Boulud, and a roundup of inviting pools.…
BERTAZZONI: TO COOK BEAUTIFULLY Bertazzoni’s new kitchen suite in the Heritage Series style combines the company’s 130-year-old roots with modern engineering. The full line now includes refrigeration and dishwashers available in all styles. Heritage-style handles tie your kitchen together with seamless installations and seamless style. For more information visit bertazzoni.com. BREGUET Breguet pays homage to Empress Joséphine (first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte) with the new high jewelry timepiece styled after a touch watch made for her by Breguet in 1800. The Perles Impériales Haute Joaillerie beams with nearly 6 carats of diamonds around the case, and a guilloched mother-of-pearl dial. For more information visit breguet.com. MINOTTI: SEYMOUR SEATING SYSTEM, DESIGN BY RODOLFO DORDONI Seymour was designed as a seating system that combines formal precision with elegant soft curves. In contrast…
It is ironic that the activities that elicit this adjective are often those requiring the most rigorous training, the most exhausting effort, and the most extreme discomfort—a ballet dancer performing endless pirouettes, a diver executing a flawless triple flip off the platform, a gymnast pulling off a perfect dismount from the parallel bars. It is the triumph of artistry that the sweat never shows. Brilliant performers understand that the less they reveal about how hard they are working, the more appreciation and awe their moves will evoke. What designers do may involve less sweat (usually), but in some ways it is not that different. Often the rooms that seem the most pleasant and relaxing—the ones where we feel at home and want to linger—have involved the most thought and planning.…
DO THE LOCOMOTION “We want people to fall in love with fabric,” says Sabine Rothman, who helms the Hearst Design Group’s market department. Rothman teamed up with ELLE DECOR’s design director, Florentino Pamintuan, to create the exuberant Inspiration feature that begins on page 76. The pair share an affection for Wes Anderson’s 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited and designed a set modeled after the opulently decorated compartments of an Orient Express–style railroad snaking its way across India. Pamintuan and Rothman covered the walls (actually foam panels) with 25 fabrics in contrasting patterns and colors, mixing in accessories, jewelry, and furnishings. “Some of the fabric designs are old, such as an Ottoman motif from a late-19th-century English country house, and some are contemporary,” says Rothman. “We wanted the set to be…
REDEFINING BEAUTY Was there an artist who captured the in-your-face glamour of the 1970s and ’80s quite like Antonio Lopez? The Puerto Rican–born illustrator quickly rose to the height of the fashion world, sketching fiery, flamboyant pencil, charcoal, and watercolor portraits of models, musicians, and scenesters for Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, Vogue, and other publications, as well as collaborating with and inspiring such designers as Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent. Combining elements of fantasy art and street style with a tropical sensibility, Lopez rendered his muses—Grace Jones, Jerry Hall, Jessica Lange—in kinetic streaks of vibrant color, all while pushing against race and gender boundaries. “Antonio Lopez: Future Funk Fashion,” a new exhibition at El Museo del Barrio in Manhattan, pays tribute to the prolific creator, who died in 1987…
WALKING ON AIR The sublime skies of Baroque frescoes and Dutchmaster paintings inspired German rug designer Jan Kath’s Heiter Bis Wolkig (“partly sunny”) collection, made from hand-spun Tibetan wool and Chinese silk. A detail of Cloud 1 is shown in the window; the more elaborate Ferrara Cloud Special Rocked is on the floor. 1 / EXPANDING HORIZONS Toronto-based designer Colleen McGill’s Bryson desk, part of her Plum Furniture line, pairs a brass-plated base with an extendable top covered in black Italian leather. 2 /ON THE GRID The 190-year-old French porcelain house Deshoulières brings a playful twist to Limoges china with its Graphique tableware, featuring punchy colors set against a gold lattice. 3 /BALANCE OF POWER Made of marble and covered with a veneer of semiprecious stones, such as malachite, shown,…
